The following guest opinion was submitted to Chaffee County Commissioners and the public record on May 27, 2021 Dear County Commissioners, As a physician
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On May 19, a trio of public health experts from Drexel University convened in a panel discussion to answer questions submitted by faculty and professional staff and to address concerns related to the COVID-19 vaccine.
At Drexel, proof of vaccination against COVID-19 will be mandatory for students in the upcoming academic year with a full return to campus, and the decision about a similar vaccine mandate for employees has not yet been made. Recently, the University surveyed faculty and professional staff about their COVID-19 vaccination status; 50% of employees responded, and 94% of them were either fully vaccinated or in process of vaccination at the time.
Metal mixtures in cord blood linked with reduced birth size
Mixtures of toxic metals in umbilical cord blood were associated with reduced birth size, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The study, which was published May 14, 2021, in Environmental Health Perspectives, analyzed data from a group of more than 1,000 pregnant women in Bangladesh who had been exposed to metals from multiple sources. The researchers looked the birth weight, birth length, and head circumference of the women’s newborns, and also measured the amounts of several metals arsenic, cadmium, manganese, and lead in umbilical cords. They found that higher levels of metal mixtures in the umbilical cords were significantly linked with smaller birth size.
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